Genders, races, and religious cultures in modern American poetry, 1908-1934
Here, Rachel Blau Duplessis shows how, through poetic language, modernist writers represented the debates around such social issues of modernity as suffrage, sexuality, manhood, and African-American and Jewish subjectivities.
XIV, 238 p. ; 24 cm.
9780521483353, 0521483352
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Acknowledgements; 1. Entitled new: a social philology of modern American poetries; 2. 'Corpses of poesy': modern poets consider dome gender ideologies of lyric; 3. 'Seismic orgasm': sexual intercourse, its modern representations and politics; 4. 'HOO, HOO, HOO': some episodes in the construction of modern male whiteness; 5. 'Darken your speech': racialized cultural work in black and white poets; 6. 'Wondering Jews': melting pots and mongrel thoughts; Notes; Works cited; Index.